This document aims at presenting a general description of the Siconos platform project. It describes, in a very general way, the major objectives of the platform and the major constraints of development and exploitation. It is addressed to users and software framework builders.
This project belongs to the European project SICONOS, dedicated to the modeling, the control the analysis and the simulation of the so-called ``Non Smooth Dynamical system'' NSDS. More details on this European project can be found on the website of the Project http://siconos.inrialpes.fr.
The design and the development of the Siconos platform which is one of the major objective of this European project, is told the work package 2 ("Numerical methods and algorithms'') in confidence; More details on this European project can be found on the website of the WP2 : http://siconos.inrialpes.fr/software.
The Siconos platform should be used as well by research academic teams as by the industries, interested in NSDS. As we said earlier, the platform must rely on existing habits of the community if users, that we want to reach. The exploitation must take into account these hard constraints.
To fulfill the constraints on the existing habits of a variety of users, the user interface must be implemented in three ways :
The project is currently under development, a first public version will be ready for October 2005
Inception: | Project overview Project proposal | Project presentation |
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Specification: | Software requirements specification Feature set Use case suite | It aims to define precisely the software to realize. It describes functionalities and characteristics of the software and constraints of development and exploitation. It is addressed to users and software framework builders. |
Design: | Design | Define the software architecture of the Siconos. This architecture relies on the specification. |
Quality Plan | QA Plan | Check that the project is consistent |
Glossary | Project Term Standard |